Archive for the ‘Malaysian’ Category

MALAYSIAN STREET FOOD TOUR OF KUALA LUMPUR (VIDEO)

February 6th, 2012

If you like to travel and eat (or to read about it), Migrationology is a pretty interesting website.

The latest installment is a video of Mark’s 12-hour street food binge in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Enjoy!

MALAYSIA NOODLE FESTIVAL TOMORROW (9/27) IN MEATPACKING DISTRICT

September 26th, 2011

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Malaysia Kitchen for the World, the same people who brought us the Eat|Drink|Explore Malaysia Kitchen festival last year in Grand Central Station (above) are hosting the Malaysia Noodle Festival tomorrow.

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Chicken betel leaf from Betel during Eat|Drink|Explore Malaysia

The Malaysia Noodle Festival takes place on Tuesday, September 27th, and features classic Malaysian noodle dishes from some great New York restaurants.

Click through for more details.

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MALAYSIAN STREET FOOD CARNIVAL

December 16th, 2010
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Sometimes you just have to go to the source!  Sunflower Garden attended a Malaysian street food carnival in Taman Sentosa that looked ridiculously delicious.

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Chee Cheong Fan with additional fish cakes.

Chee Cheong Fan is a simple light meal. It is basically rolls of flat rice nodles eaten with shrimp paste, belacan and chili, with a sprinkling of sesame seeds. Innocent enough but the sauce packs a kick.

laksa soup

laksa soup

Sunflower Garden missed the main fireworks display, but they did get a video of a shorter fireworks display (below).

One of these days, I have to get to Malaysia!

NNONYA (MALAYSIAN) FOOD

December 9th, 2010

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I received an email recently from the Malaysia Kitchen people, who must have liked my articles on Eat|Drink|Explore Malaysia Kitchen and the Malaysian Kitchen Food Truck, because I was invited to the Flavors of Malaysia cookbook launch at the Nnonya restaurant.  Although I could not make the event, I did some research on Nnonya food, and it looked pretty interesting!

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Nnonya Lam Mee

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MALAYSIA TAKES A CUE FROM THE VENDYS

November 10th, 2010
Celebrating street food: Fried Chillies videographer Miko Abdullah (right) and friend Syahid Johari at the launching of FriedChillies’ Love Your Street Food Campaign.

Fried Chillies videographer Miko Abdullah (right) and friend Syahid Johari at the launch of FriedChillies’ Love Your Street Food Campaign.

Malaysian food media company FriedChillies (www.friedchillies.com) have launched a “Love Your Street Food Campaign” (LYSF) where you can vote for your favorite street food vendor.  As FriedChillies CEO and founder Mohd Adly Rizal points out, it is the least we can do if we love street food. (more…)